The government of US has decided to make various budget cuts in different areas, these budget cuts have been made to counter the budget deficit issue experienced by US. The sequestration of budget cuts to federal spending has caused an unresolved solution in rescuing our economy. Budget cuts will have several negative impacts on the society; these cuts will lead to job losses and even decrease in aids for institutions such as educational and medical institutes. Mandatory programs such as unemployment and Medicare will also be affected. Government needs to ensure that these budget cuts do not affect the overall society in a negative manner. Government can create it’s budget cut policy in accordance to the utilitarian rule provided by John Stuart Mill He states that those actions should be taken that have the highest amount of utility (benefit) for the society and the lowest amount of cost as compared to other decisions that can be taken to solve the issue (West 2). Keeping in mind the utilitarian rule, government should practice budget cuts in those areas where the society is much negatively impacted as compared to those areas where the society is less likely to be impacted in a negative manner. For example: the society will benefit more if budget cuts are conducted in the area of law enforcement, military, and other defense functions. There is a lot of waste in our government which is why we are where we are today. For years US has diverted a very huge portion of its budget to fight terrorism, but has failed to achieve positive results. Therefore, budget cuts in law enforcement area, military, and in defense would be better than budget cuts in education and medical aid. Education and medical assistance is very necessary and not every individual of the US society can afford it, thus government should continue subsidizing these fields.

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Samantha St.Upery
Ethics Essay
ETH/316
August 7, 2014
Mrs. Mona Ristovv
Ethics Essay
Utilitarianism ethics accentuates that the activity that should be ethically beneficial to the group. In further terms, the outcome of any moral activity ought to be valuable for all by mass offer. This is a universal fundamental theme for ethics in industrialist economies and business as well as in all governments.
Virtue Theory is also known as virtue ethics focal point on the person’s character as opposed to the standards and outcomes of the particular acts. This fundamentally means that the prime focus is endured or not to the person who acting ethically is a person who upholds the high virtues and morals, in expressing the good character in people. , plan, results and conclusion are not so much immaterial; nonetheless, the significance of virtue theory is first and foremost.
Dissimilar to virtue theory, deontology has a substantial accentuation on obligation in activity, in adherence to runs the show. The right activity is essential here, whereupon fruition, ought to achieve the best useful for all included. This is to some degree like utilitarianism, which does concentrate on the result of the best great. Be that as it may, deontology does not incline toward the result itself, yet all the more so the guideline behind submitting the right activity. The moral behind deontology is about...

...important function for all businesses as they seek to compete and profit in their industry.
Estimate and forecast future cash flows – future cash flows are what create value for businesses overtime. Capital budgeting enables executives to take a potential project and estimate its future cash flows, which then helps determine if such a project should be accepted.
Facilitate the transfer of information – from the time that a project starts off as an idea to the time it is accepted or rejected, numerous decisions have to be made at various levels of authority. The capital budgeting process facilitates the transfer of information to the appropriate decision makers within a company.
Monitoring and Control of Expenditures – by definition a budget carefully identifies the necessary expenditures and R&D required for an investment project. Since a good project can turn bad if expenditures aren't carefully controlled or monitored, this step is a crucial benefit of the capital budgeting process.
Creation of Decision – when a capital budgeting process is in place, a company is then able to create a set of decision rules that can categorize which projects are acceptable and which projects are unacceptable. The result is a more efficiently run business that is better equipped to quickly ascertain whether or not to proceed further with a project or shut it down early in the process, thereby saving a company both time and money.
Unlike other business...

...Unlike morals, which are deeply held convictions held by an individual in regards to right and wrong behavior, ethics are recognized rules of conduct in regards to a specific action or a particular group of people. In short, ethics come from an external social structure whereas morals come from within – a person’s own perceptions of right and wrong regardless of what society’s rules say. The three primary schools of ethics that can be used in discussing ethical problems and dilemmas are care-based ethics, rule-based ethics, and end-based ethics.
In the case of ethical dilemma number 2, if one were to apply care-based ethics, then both of the adult parties in the situation would yield to what would be best for the child. Care-based ethics involves having the ability to put oneself in another’s shoes and see a situation from his or her point of view. The ethical dilemma clearly states that the girl was taken away from her foster parents against her will after her biological parents sobered up and wanted to regain custody. To abide by care-based ethics, the adults would need to let the girl make the decision; everyone would have to consider how the child feels.; care-based ethics is not determined by law, courts, or duty.
Utilitarian ethics looks to solve a dilemma by producing the greatest good for the greatest...

...﻿When determining the status of morality there is three different options. Morality may be the different between objectives, relativistic, or it may be a complex set of rules. Moral nihilists are like relativists by denying ethical objectivism however, relativists believe in moral goodness, duty and virtue and nihilists don’t. Error theorists and expressivism are both forms of moral nihilism. Error theorists believe “our moral judgments are always mistaken”. Expressivists don’t agree and also deny that our moral claims can ever offer an accurate take on reality. (307)
Error theory and expressivism are two forms of moral nihilism. Error theorists believe “our moral judgments are always mistaken”. (307) While expressivists deny those beliefs and deny, “that our moral claims can never offer an accurate take on reality”. (307) The error theory is made of three doubts/claims.
The first is “there are no moral features in this world”. Error theorists believe that nothing is morally good or bad, or right and wrong. Exemplified in the book many scientific qualities in the world (liquids, being three feet long, carbon based chemicals) but none of them contain moral features. The next doubt of error theorists is no moral judgments are true. There are no moral facts so certain statements made cannot be true. The third corresponds to the second doubt, “our sincere moral judgments try, but always fail, to describe the moral features of things”. Since there are no moral truths for...

...Midgley
Firstly, I will like to mention - Mary Midgley who is an English moral philosopher known for her work on science, ethics, human rights and related topics. Midgley would deal with this topic from a ‘non-reductionist humanism’ approach as written in her work “A Chimera for Self Sufficiency.” According to Midgley,1 humanism exists to commemorate and enhance the glory of human life. The aspect is undistracted by reverence for any entities on the outside. But as soon as we cut away those entities, precious elements in human life also go, and the center begins to bleed. (94)
Clearly, she takes a humanist approach to the issue, and that it can be understood to mean to mean that she is not very supportive the violation of medical ethics, and, in fact, Midgley wrote these lines in the very same context (of medical ethics) in her original work. By the term ‘center begins to bleed,’ Midgley is probably referring to the societal and human problems that occur due to the obvious violation of medical ethics by physicians. Therefore, from Midgley’s view on the subject one can deduce that a person as honorable as a physician should not get involved in executions that, in a way, are against the concepts of humanism as well as against the very core of medical ethics.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who wrote several treatises on Ethics and Philosophy. Nietzsche...

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Ethics Of….
Boxing is a violent sport full of hate where the only objective is to knock your opponent unconscious. This is a very quick and biased view of boxing because if you study boxing closer it helps teach the person about their moral character. Boxing helps teach people to “get off the canvas and roll with the punches” (Marino, 2010, para 8) and to face their fears, two important lessons to get through life. Throughout the article written by Marino, he educates about Aristotelian ethics and uses boxing as a real-life example. I believe that Marino’s invocation of Aristotelian ethics is well articulated, and I agree with his application through boxing relating it to your life. Aristotelian ethics and boxing can relate to the rights and responsibility lens; boxing can help develop our moral lives and can clearly define and educate people about Aristotle’s definition of courage.
The sport of boxing and comparing it to real-life morals and virtues is extremely well done by Gordon Marino using Aristotelian ethics. The moral virtues that Aristotle preached such as “qualities, temperance, justice, pride, and truthfulness” (Marino, 2010, para. 11) all can be directly applied to Kantian ethics and the rights/responsibility lens (DesJardins, 2012). Boxing is a man versus man, woman versus woman sport which “can compel a person to take a quick self-inventory...

...1. (TCO A) Companies put forth a ________, a set of benefits that they offer to customers to satisfy their needs. (Points : 6)
brand
value proposition
deal
marketing plan
demand
Question 2.2. (TCO A) Samuel Adams trains his company's sales force to go after the consumer. Sam repeatedly asks his team to bear in mind the essential fact that it is the sales team's responsibility to rouse the consumer's interest and make him feel that he needs the product. A true salesman is one who can convert an indifferent consumer walking into the store into a new customer. Sam believes in the ________ concept. (Points : 6)
product
production
selling
marketing
social responsibility
Question 3.3. (TCO A) Which of the following is one of the five major characteristics of good mission statements? (Points : 6)
They focus on a large number of goals.
They expand the range of individual employee discretion.
They define the major competitive spheres within which the company will operate.
They take a short-term view.
They are long and comprehensive to ensure that all critical concepts are included.
Question 4.4. (TCO C) Which of the following statements is true of marketing plans? (Points : 6)
They can be independently developed without worrying about other functional areas.
They provide direction and focus for a brand, product, or...